About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

April 14......

April 14 is the 104th (105th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Church-State Separation "The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation." — John Adams

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people." — Jerry Falwell

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.

● 73 - According to Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada on this last night before the walls were breached by the attacking Roman Tenth Legion. (Two women and five children survived by hiding in a cistern, and were later released unharmed by the Romans.)

● 1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

● 1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

● 1788 - Doctor's Riot. Five killed as a mob storms Doctors Hospital in New York, where Columbia University doctors and students were dissecting human corpses, many stolen from local graveyards.

● 1864 - Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.

● 1865 - United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.

● 1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.

● 1874 - Josiah Warren dies, Boston, Mass. Warren founded several "equity" stores, based on the idea of exchanging goods for an equivalent amount of labor and the principle that cost should be the limit of price. He established three utopian colonies; the most successful (1851-c.1860) was Modern Times (now Brentwood), Long Island, New York.

● 1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington.

● 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.

● 1900 - Veteran's Hospital at Fort Miley is established

● 1901 - Clement Duval, anarchist expropriator and member of the "Panthers of Batignolles," escapes from servitude in Guyana, where he is serving a life sentence for the French, and makes his way to New York, where he lived until age 85 surrounded by Italian anarchist comrades.

● 1906 - The Azusa Street Revival -- proto-mission out of which the modern Pentecostal movement spread world-wide -- officially began when the services led by black evangelist William J. Seymour, 36, moved into the building at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles.

● 1910 - President William Howard Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day

● 1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.

● 1913 - Belgium begins general strike for voting rights

● 1914 - Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern

● 1915 - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by German torpedo

● 1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.

● 1918 - The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France.

● 1930 - Police arrest over 100 Chicano and Filipino farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight will be convicted of so-called "criminal syndicalism." By 1933, California farm laborers see a five-year wage cut from 35 cents to 14 cents an hour. In response, they support strikes led by unions such as La Union de Trabajadores del Valle Imperial. In one of the most powerful strikes, 12,000 laborers in the San Joaquin Valley fight price cuts for picked cotton. To bust the union, growers evict strikers and dump their belongings on the road. Local police, meanwhile, arrest strike leaders and picketers. But in the end the strikers win a 15-cent wage hike.

● 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation 25.

● 1942 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast

● 1942 - Detroit radio priest, Father Charles E. Coughlin was censured for anti-Semitism. Coughlin's broadcasts had railed against "godless capitalists, the Jews, the Communists, international bankers and plutocrats."

● 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.

● 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.

● 1988 - Death of Daniel Guerin, 84, gay libertarian communist, one of France's best known revolutionary activists and thinkers.

● 1988 - Denmark declares its ports nuclear-free.

● 1988 - Representatives from the U.S.S.R., Pakistan, Afghanistan and the U.S. signed an agreement that called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. The last Soviet troop left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989.

● 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.

● 1994 - Two US F-15s accidentally shoot 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die

● 1995 - Native American Leonard Peters and sheriff's deputy Bob Davis are killed in a shootout during a police ambush near Covelo, Calif. Native American Bear Lincoln would later be acquitted of murder charges in the deaths in a racially charged trial.

● 1997 - Launch of separate two-month marches of the unemployed in nearly a dozen European countries, to converge on a European Union meeting in June.

● 2000 - Supports of microradio (pirate) radio movement protest at National Association of Broadcasters headquarters in Washington, D.C.

● 2000 - M25 killer gets life; A man who carried out a "road rage" killing is beginning a life sentence after being convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in London.

● 2000 - After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty that calls for the scrapping of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if Washington continued with an anti-missile system.

● 2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Abundius● St. Ardalion● St. Domnina● St. Justin, philosopher/martyr● St. Lambert of Lyon● St. Lydwine● St. Peter Gonzalez● St. Tassach● St. Thomais● Sts. Tiburtius, Valerina, Maximus, martyrs

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.